[INDOLOGY] The Buddhist term sutta

[Nathan McGovern]

Dear Jim,

I have a brief critique of the sukta hypothesis in "Protestant 
Presuppositions and the Study of the Early Buddhist Oral Tradition," 
JIABS 42 (2019), 464n24.

Nathan McGovern

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

On 5/10/2021 2:21 PM, Jim Ryan via INDOLOGY wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Sheldon Pollock in /The Language of the Gods in the World of Men /(p. 
> 52) suggests that the Buddhist term “sutta” does not derive from the 
> Sanskrit /sūtra,/ but rather from /sūkta. /Sanskrit double consonant 
> clusters do show regular assimilation, regressively and progressively, 
> in Prakrit, where two different consonants become a double of one of 
> them. I’m interested in hearing learned opinion on Pollock’s 
> suggestion. I had not noticed this interesting detail, when I first 
> read this book some years ago.
>
> James Ryan
> Asian Philosophies and Cultures (Emeritus)
> California Institute of Integral Studies
>
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